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Guess I'm A People Too
04:42
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I'm not sure if you noticed
But lately I've been sort of drifting in and out of living
My intentions and actions blurred and obscured
My ability to experience an objective reality
Distorted to the point where I'm tasting colours
And I'm seeing sound and I'm worried
I'm worried I'll never be able to smell straight again
People harness their passion
People work very hard
People focus their energy
Should I too?
Just in case you were thinking otherwise
I want you to know - I'm not really that fat
I'm just kinda soft in the middle
But I'm hard in the mind so it balances out
Besides, it never hurt to have a little extra weight
To throw around whenever it comes time
To dance those dances we dance
Yes, those beautiful dances we dance
People harness their passion
People work very hard
People focus their energy
Should I too?
People got fingers, People got toes
People got eyes on either side of their nose
Guess I'm a People too
People got a mouth, People got ears
People got as many hairs as they got fears
Guess I'm a People too
People got elbows, People got shoulders
People got issues that they can't get over
Guess I'm a People too
People got a brain, People got a heart
People got People - now that's a start
Guess I'm a People too
People harness their passion
People work very hard
People focus their energy
Should I too?
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2. |
The Secret
03:34
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I found myself at home one morning
Dragging my sorry ass nowhere.
I scratched my itches, boiled some water
Steeped the chamomile then saw it
That telling picture by a summer's lake
A pair of shy and awkward glances
You couldn't call the angle flattering
But God it made me smile to see it
The secret to making good love
is finding the right one to make it with
You have complicated feelings
I think knock-knock jokes are funny
You get goosebumps in the summer
Winter comes and I'm still sweating
When you get angry I get turned on
When I get turned on you start laughing
I never met two people as perfect for each other
as you and I are.
The secret to making good love
is finding the right one to make it with
I'm not a guy who likes to kiss and tell
And I don't mean to be a bragger
But morning breath has never kept us
from doing what we love most - sleeping in
The secret to making good love
is finding the right one to make it with
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3. |
Slowdown
04:34
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Run - run - run - running around
You keep on running around
But you're not getting away
Back - back - back - back of the class
You're stuck at the back of the class
And you're stuck there everyday
Spin - spin - spinning your wheels
Just spinning in your hamster wheel
And you just keep spinning away
You're quick, you're quicker than quick
So quick you're losing your grip
And you feel it slipping away
Girl you gotta slow down, slow down
Girl you gotta slow down, slow down
Running around, running around, running around
But you're not getting away
Back of the class, back of the class, back of the class
And you're stuck there everyday
Spinning your wheels, spinning your wheels, spinning your wheels
And you just keep spinning away
Losing your grip, losing your grip, losing your grip
And you feel it slipping away
Girl you gotta slow down, slow down
Girl you gotta slow down, slow down
I don't know a lot of things
But it seems to me
The faster that we try to go
The longer that it takes
Oh, Time is such a funny man
He's never standing still
Yet in his own incessant way
He always takes his sweet self
Girl you gotta slow down, slow down
Girl you gotta slow down, slow down
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4. |
Ducks In A Row
04:43
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You had a plan
It held no flaws
One-sided dice
The perfect odds
The perfect purpose
The perfect fit
And then your plan,
it went to shit.
And in a breath, the wind changed its tune
One withered heart
One new soul in bloom
Ducks in a row
Nobody knows
Which way they should go
The rules get tricky
The game evolves
Do you keep playing?
Or sit and watch?
The hogs get slaughtered
The pigs get fat
The world gets dizzy
And you get Jack
And in a breath, the wind changed its tune
One withered heart
One new soul in bloom
Ducks in a row
Nobody knows
Which way they should go
And in a breath, the wind changed its tune
One withered heart
One new soul in bloom
Ducks in a row
Nobody knows
Which way they should go
You had a plan
You went with it
And thankfully
it went to shit
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5. |
Suspicious Meat
05:07
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Sherry Warner found it first
Inside a park at Erin Woods
Walking her dogs just of the trail
Sniffed out some real suspicious meat
Three mounds the size of volleyballs
Big pile o' chuck still nice and raw
She called animal control
And then the Peel police showed up
"Experts are analyzing the morsels
to determine if they were tampered with,
and investigators are asking anyone who
may have noticed anything suspicious
in the park to contact them."
Then in Tobias Mason park
Chap found another curious chop
The second hunk inside a week
But no conclusive link was made
City workers scoured the trash
To sink their teeth into a clue
While Sergeant Zahir couldn't say
Until the test results came back
"Authorities are still reminding people
to keep a close watch over their children
and pets while spending time in parks.
This incident came about a month after
a poisoning-scare in High Park in which
several dogs were sickened and two died."
Finally those slabs got 'dentified
Police confirm no tampering
But were they left maliciously?
Or were they left for squirrels to eat?
Now both them parks opened again
And such a case is pretty rare
But buddy's still out on the loose
So keep an eye on pets and kids
Yeah keep an eye on pets and kids
Said watch your pets and watch your kids
La la la la suspicious meat
La la la la suspicious meat
La la la la suspicious meat
La la la la suspicious meat
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Tethered
03:52
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We don't always remember
Just whose side we are on
It's hard to keep all the facts straight
When playing it so close to the chest
And if I stay tethered to you
Will you stay tethered to me?
'Cause then we could pull ourselves up
As quick as we knock ourselves down
Sometimes, we are emergency surgery
Either we kill or we save
And sometimes, we are the primest of numbers
We just can't be divided
And if I stay tethered to you
Will you stay tethered to me?
'Cause then we could pull ourselves up
As quick as we knock ourselves down
Nothing's better 'til it's worse
Nothing heals until it hurts
Nothing's lost until you've got something to lose
And if I stay tethered to you
Will you stay tethered to me?
'Cause then we could pull ourselves up
As quick as we knock ourselves down
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I got powers that'll make your head spin
I can hear voices when there's nobody speakin'
The doctors all tell me that I'm fallin' to pieces
But I don't fall for nothin', I know it's telekenisis
See someone in the government's controllin' my body
'Cause I'm the only one they trust to carry-out their secret mission
Millions of fingers crunchin' millions of numbers
Couldn't figure it out 'cause I'm the only one smart enough
To crack the code, to put it all in perspective
I solve every puzzle 'cause I'm a master detective
Yes, every useless bit of information I've collected
will be used against my enemies to bring them to their knees
I'm always happier-than-happy 'til I'm sadder-than-sad
Do it make me crazy or is I just mad?
When I'm not busy engineering every major election
I roam the Galaxy in search of rare bubonic infections
I've built tangrams with aliens, played backgammon with God
I've done well for being more than a few peas short of a pod
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Maybe
03:34
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I watch the candle flicker
Reminds me of my mission
A million ways to burn out
I find it hard to pick one
Maybe if I stare even deeper into...
I watch the stars rehearsing
I'm jealous of their distance
They practice while the sun sleeps
I find it hard to count them
Maybe if I just close my eyes for a bit...
Maybe I'm just off the mark and getting colder
Maybe everything's a joke that's over my head
Maybe I'm not meant to ask the question
Maybe I already know the answer
I hear the rivers rushing
I wonder what's their hurry?
A gush of inspiration
It always leaves me thirsty
Maybe if I slow down I'll catch up with them...
The answer's always maybe
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9. |
The Vice
03:50
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Everywhere I go, I go in disguise
Every move I make, I make a surprise
Everyone I meet, I meet after dark
'Cause you can never be too sure, too sure who they are
Fool me once
Fool me twice
I pull the wool
And squeeze the vice
I got eyes on the back of my head
I got eyes on the back of my head
So if you try to fool me you'll get fooled instead
I got eyes on the back of my head
Never keep a secret, secrets will eat you
Never trust to luck, blind luck will defeat you
Never turn your back, your back will get bruised
Never lose your cool, your cool trips the fuse
Fool me once
Fool me twice
I pull the wool
And squeeze the vice
I got eyes on the back of my head
I got eyes on the back of my head
So if you try to fool me you'll get fooled instead
I got eyes on the back of my head
Every price you pay, you pay for a reason
'Cause every pig will squeal, squeal if you squeeze him
I got eyes on the back of my head
I got eyes on the back of my head
So if you try to fool me you'll get fooled instead
I got eyes on the back of my head
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10. |
Words
02:50
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Don't wanna talk about the future
Don't wanna talk about the past
Don't wanna talk about the present
No I don't even wanna say one word
'Cause words just seem to ruin
The times we're lying still
Numb from love's collide
Tell me what words add to that?
Because our breath can somehow sweeten
The silent space our bodies fill
Because our hearts beat like they're screamin'
No we won't even have to say one word
Instead, our words will be
Our reaches and our stares
A language just for us
Tell me what words add to that?
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11. |
Until
01:26
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Until the end of ends
Until we've said it all
Until we wear right through
Until the last sweet note
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12. |
Red Red Mud
04:56
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Red red mud, red red mud
Same deep colour as my red red blood
Red red dirt, red red dirt
Stains my heart the way it stains my shirt
Red red clay, red red clay
Made me into what I am today
Red red sand, red red sand
I dig my toes into the red red sand
Red red soil, red red soil
We reap rich harvest from the red red soil
Red red earth, red red earth
Lay my soul to rest in red red earth
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Adam Campbell Toronto, Ontario
Adam is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter originally from Summerside, PEI. 'Guess I'm A People Too' is Adam's debut solo album. He lives and works in Toronto with his wife Alice and his cat Ninja.
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